Given his energetic involvement in practical initiatives and extensive
lecturing, Rudolf Steiner had little time to write books. Of those he
did write - belonging almost entirely to the earlier years of his work
- four titles form an indispensable introduction to his later
teaching: Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, Occult Science, The
Philosophy of Freedom and Theosophy. Theosophy focuses on a psychology
based not on the usual duality of body and mind, but on the more
ancient division of body, soul and spirit.
Steiner describes in detail the functions and organs of these three
aspects of the human being, and the objective realms to which they
belong. Just as the body derives from and belongs to the material
world, so do the human soul and spirit belong to their own specific
realms. These are the dimensions through which all human beings travel
in the life after death, and in which - after passing the 'midnight
hour' - we prepare to seek our destiny, or karma, in a new life.
Theosophy features one of the most comprehensive and condensed of all
Steiner's accounts of these realms, and of the experiences which our
immortal being undergoes in passing through them. The book ends with a
chapter on the modern 'path of knowledge', in which Steiner describes
the exercises through which every person may develop the latent powers
of perception which are necessary for a knowledge of metaphysical
worlds.
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ISBN
9781855842953
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Rudolf Steiner Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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